The problem is that they aren't even getting obligatory chocolates, those are reserved for office girls to give to their bosses. These guys aren't someone's boss, they are at the bottom of the totem pole, and don't have a wife or gf, so they get squat.

On the bright side, they won't have to buy anything on White Day a month later.

The problem is that they aren't even getting obligatory chocolates, those are reserved for office girls to give to their bosses. These guys aren't someone's boss, they are at the bottom of the totem pole, and don't have a wife or gf, so they get squat.

On the bright side, they won't have to buy anything on White Day a month later.

The problem is that they aren't even getting obligatory chocolates, those are reserved for office girls to give to their bosses. These guys aren't someone's boss, they are at the bottom of the totem pole, and don't have a wife

waifu or gf pillow, so they get squat.

On the bright side, they won't have to buy anything on White Day a month later.

Japan: The [V-day] insurance policyholder will receive a package on Feb 14 containing chocolates and a personal message from self-professed beautiful lady, Rieko.China: For as little as $50 (£32) a day, dozens of classified adverts promise to provide a male companion for the holidays, pretending to be a single woman's plus-one.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-21192131

Japan: The [V-day] insurance policyholder will receive a package on Feb 14 containing chocolates and a personal message from self-professed beautiful lady, Rieko.China: For as little as $50 (£32) a day, dozens of classified adverts promise to provide a male companion for the holidays, pretending to be a single woman's plus-one.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-21192131

I don't get it, is the cross dresser/tranny the only option? They don't have deluxe package where it's a 99 year old woman?

When I worked in Japan and learned all about White Day as the male answer to female generosity on Valentine's Day, I thought they had it backwards. After all, aren't men stereotypically deemed more forgetful about such things than women? Society expects men to keep track of all the chocolate they receive and remember who gave it to them for a whole month? If anything, I'd have done it like the Chinese, with men giving chocolates first, on Valentine's Day.

Then, I was told of sanbai gaeshi ("triple the return"), meaning anything men gave to women in return on White Day was usually worth triple the value of what they had initially received. It all became crystal clear. When a Japanese woman gives you chocolate on Valentine's Day, she's not being kind, she's making an investment.

Between this thread and wikipedia, I've learned that Japan took our dumb "holiday" invented by greeting card companies a century ago and made it a totally unromantic obligation for women to give crappy candy to all their male co-workers and bosses (just as elementary school students in our land are obligated to give Valentines to everyone in the class, even Ralph). Unless they are in "love" in which case they have to prove it by making candy by hand, presumably with a level of obsessive craft that would make Martha Stewart weep. Then an enterprising Japanese candy company saw the giant opportunity in their nation's paternalistic, one-sided interpretation of Valentines Day and invented ANOTHER holiday a month later on which men have to give a return gift that is worth three times more. I'll bet that the week before White Day there are a lot of guys with their buddies sitting around in panic sweat trying to figure out how much their girlfriends' gifts are worth and doing the math.

In some ways, it's amusing that it went from "Awww, yeah, gettin' free candy like a boss" to something three times worse than what North American men have to put up with. But all holidays invented by companies to sell crap should be condemned internationally. Fight the candyman power!

Also, I guess you have to be a supreme basement-dwelling loser to need this Valentine's Day insurance since it seems like they should at least get cheap candy from someone of the female persuasion at work.

ruta:Between this thread and wikipedia, I've learned that Japan took our dumb "holiday" invented by greeting card companies a century ago and made it a totally unromantic obligation for women to give crappy candy to all their male co-workers and bosses (just as elementary school students in our land are obligated to give Valentines to everyone in the class, even Ralph). Unless they are in "love" in which case they have to prove it by making candy by hand, presumably with a level of obsessive craft that would make Martha Stewart weep. Then an enterprising Japanese candy company saw the giant opportunity in their nation's paternalistic, one-sided interpretation of Valentines Day and invented ANOTHER holiday a month later on which men have to give a return gift that is worth three times more. I'll bet that the week before White Day there are a lot of guys with their buddies sitting around in panic sweat trying to figure out how much their girlfriends' gifts are worth and doing the math.

In some ways, it's amusing that it went from "Awww, yeah, gettin' free candy like a boss" to something three times worse than what North American men have to put up with. But all holidays invented by companies to sell crap should be condemned internationally. Fight the candyman power!

rogue_L_chick:it just hit me...this will be the first year that I don't have to sit around all day and listen to women crow about their prowess in selecting a mate that has the largest bundle of flora delivered.

/unemployed and unloved

Use your unemployment to buy chocolate, a new vibrator, and new pillows to muffle your weeping.

Not sure how much the insurance costs in US dollars, but wouldn't someone rather just take the money and treat themselves to something a little more fun? Be a man and have a whiskey or a few beers by yourself instead!

valar_morghulis:rogue_L_chick: it just hit me...this will be the first year that I don't have to sit around all day and listen to women crow about their prowess in selecting a mate that has the largest bundle of flora delivered.

/unemployed and unloved

Use your unemployment to buy chocolate, a new vibrator, and new pillows to muffle your weeping.

I read that as chocolate vibrator... melts in your cooch, not in your hands.

FullMetalPanda:valar_morghulis: rogue_L_chick: it just hit me...this will be the first year that I don't have to sit around all day and listen to women crow about their prowess in selecting a mate that has the largest bundle of flora delivered.

/unemployed and unloved

Use your unemployment to buy chocolate, a new vibrator, and new pillows to muffle your weeping.

I read that as chocolate vibrator... melts in your cooch, not in your hands.

valar_morghulis:rogue_L_chick: it just hit me...this will be the first year that I don't have to sit around all day and listen to women crow about their prowess in selecting a mate that has the largest bundle of flora delivered.

/unemployed and unloved

Use your unemployment to buy chocolate, a new vibrator, and new pillows to muffle your weeping.

I had planned on some weed and a box of PB Cap'n Crunch...but yeah, same thing.

rogue_L_chick:valar_morghulis: rogue_L_chick: it just hit me...this will be the first year that I don't have to sit around all day and listen to women crow about their prowess in selecting a mate that has the largest bundle of flora delivered.

/unemployed and unloved

Use your unemployment to buy chocolate, a new vibrator, and new pillows to muffle your weeping.

I had planned on some weed and a box of PB Cap'n Crunch...but yeah, same thing.

I feel you. I tend to binge on dessert cereals when I go through rough breakups.